add news item for ikiwiki 1.9

doc/news/version_1.6.mdwn

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-ikiwiki 1.6 released with these changes:
-
-   * YA utf-8 patch from Recai, this time to fix previewing a page so that
-     the text in the input box is re-encoded back to utf-8.
-   * -CSD does not affect modules, so readfile() was not using the utf-8 input
-     layer, which led to lots of problems; make it force read files as utf-8.
-     Closes: #[373203](http://bugs.debian.org/373203)
-   * Note that as a consequence, this version of ikiwiki will actually try to
-     parse utf8 in source files for the first time, which may expose broken
-     utf8 in wiki sources that was hidden before. Most common will be
-     perl warnings like "utf8 "\xE9" does not map to Unicode"
-   * writefile() likewise needs to use the utf8 output layer.
-   * Remove the -CSD from ikiwiki's hashbang since it's useless to have it
-     there.
-   * Revert some of the decode\_utf8 changes in CGI.pm that seem unnecessary
-     given the readfile fix.
-   * Add utf-8 testcases for readfile and htmlize.
-   * Put back the encode\_utf8 in the input to markdown; it's really not utf-8
-     safe.
-   * More utf-8 fixes from Recai, partly to things I broke above:
-     - The serious problem is that writefile() saves the content in undecoded
-       format in CGI, hence all (non-ascii) chars are corrupted permanently.
-     - Comment field in edit page is not decoded and all the non-ascii chars in
-       this field are corrupted as the result.  We should decode it as we do it
-       for the content.
-     - Add 'use encoding "utf8"' to CGI.pm to avoid warnings about wide
-       character in print.
-   * New SVG logo from Recai.

doc/news/version_1.9.mdwn

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+ikiwiki 1.9 released with these changes:
+
+   * Improve display of parentlinks and page title of toplevel index page.
+   * Patch from Faidon to use svn --limit when possible for recentchanges,
+     speeds up recentchanges a lot for wikis with more history.
+   * Patch from Recai to fix utf8 issues in git backend.
+   * Add wikitext markup plugin, which supports ".wiki" pages written in the
+     original wiki syntax, CamelCase links and all.
+   * Support a w3mmode, which lets w3m run ikiwiki using its local CGI
+     support, to edit pages etc without a web server.
+   * Display CGI processing errors if present.
+   * Fix from Faidon for a XML parser issue that breaks utf-8 for
+     RecentChanges. Avoid using XML::SAX::PurePerl, which is buggy in this
+     area, and also way slow.
+   * Match 'web commit from' in SVN and git, these are web commits too.
+     (Faidon)
+   * Consolidated all decode\_utf8 in FormBuilder's fields to make the code more
+     readable and avoid future mistakes. The patch seems to work and for the
+     first time I have a UTF-8 username ;-) (Faidon)
+   * Use form->field consistently, not form->param.
+   * Patch from Recai to allow selection of page type when creating a new page.
+     Default page type is inherited from the link clicked on to create the new
+     page.